Day: March 10, 2009

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Burningbird Technology Weblogging

Drupal and PHP Safe Mode

I had asked about a new hosting company on Twitter. My main interest was cutting costs, but I’m also having problems with my current hosting company. Frankly, I think the problem is all of the Ruby-on-Rails applications running—database access almost comes to a standstill at times. Regardless, the company also turned on PHP safe mode, […]

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Technology

Wolfram Alpha

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Sheila Lennon asked my opinion on the Nova Spivack’s recent writing about Wolfram Alpha, and posted my response, as well as other notes. Wolfram Alpha is the latest brainchild of Mathematica creator, Stephan Wolfram, and is a stealth project to create a computational knowledge engine. To repeat my response: First of all, it’s […]